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New theory frames multi-head attention as ensemble regression

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Researchers have developed a statistical theory that frames multi-head attention (MHA) as an ensemble of Nadaraya-Watson kernel regression estimators. This framework reveals that variance reduction in MHA is fundamentally tied to the decorrelation of outputs from different attention heads, rather than just the number of heads. They introduced the Head Diversity Index (HDI) to measure this decorrelation and derived an optimal head-dimension allocation strategy, suggesting a new architectural scaling law where optimal per-head dimension grows logarithmically with training set size. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ernest Fokou\'e ·

    Multi-Head Attention as Ensemble Nadaraya-Watson Estimation: Variance Reduction, Decorrelation, and Optimal Head Diversity

    arXiv:2605.20271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a rigorous statistical theory of multi-head attention (MHA) as an ensemble of Nadaraya-Watson (NW) kernel regression estimators. Building on the algebraic identity between single-head softmax attention and the NW estimato…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ernest Fokoué ·

    Multi-Head Attention as Ensemble Nadaraya-Watson Estimation: Variance Reduction, Decorrelation, and Optimal Head Diversity

    We develop a rigorous statistical theory of multi-head attention (MHA) as an ensemble of Nadaraya-Watson (NW) kernel regression estimators. Building on the algebraic identity between single-head softmax attention and the NW estimator, we prove that MHA is a structured ensemble of…

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